UMass Medical School

Early data in a trial, run in part at UMass Medical School in Worcester, for adolescents indicates the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine has a 95% efficacy with no serious safety concerns to date for individuals aged 12 to 17, as the pharmaceutical company works to receive approval for the vaccine’s widespread use in children.

Worcester’s UMass Medical School announced on Tuesday that Mireli Fino will be the next executive vice chancellor for MassBiologics on July 1, leading the organization dedicated to improving worldwide health.

A firm making gene therapy for rare diseases that was co-founded by a UMass Medical School professor has won regulatory approval to continue research and investigatory work for an ALS therapy.

None of the leaders struck a celebratory tone, noting the conviction of one police officer was not equivalent to beating back systemic racism.

Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga, a vice provost at UMass Medical School and the director of its Center for Clinical and Translational Science, is a candidate to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Colleges in Central Massachusetts are due to receive an estimated $100 million among them under the latest federal pandemic aid program.

UMass Medical School has long been a major component of the UMass system's research operations, itself a growing priority of the university and a point of pride for its national standing.

The Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations has certified the ability of doctors in training at UMass Medical School to collectively bargain, according to the union those doctors voted to join.

One very real challenge unique to vaccine distribution, both in Massachusetts and the rest of the country, has centered around overcoming skepticism and assuaging concerns about the relative safety of inoculation.

UMass Medical School called a unionization vote this week by physicians in training a first step in a process and called the residents and fellows valued members of its healthcare teams.